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It is yet another year where student athletes anxiously seek to break and shutter records and win the coveted trophy for their respective Halls of residence in the oldest sports competition on University of Ghana (UG) campus – UG Inter-Hall Athletics Competition.

The event will take place for the first time ever at the UG Stadium from this Wednesday, 25th to Friday, 27th October, 2017, at 2:00 pm each day. Athletes from all the residential halls on campus, City Campus and Distance will participate. The 54th edition of the UG Inter-Halls Athletics Competition is being sponsored by Total Ghana Limited.

Invited Dignitaries

The competition which is under the theme “Creating an Enabling Environment for Youth Empowerment through University Sports” will begraced by Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu (Vice-Chancellor), Professor Kwame Offei (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Academic and Student Affairs (ASA)), The Registrar (UG),Prof. Francis Nunoo (Dean of Student Affairs), members of Sports Directorate Management Committee, members of University of Ghana Sports Advisory Board, Management of the various Halls, Student Sports Council (SSC) and the Executives of Students’ Representative Council (SRC). Other invited guests include UG Sports Ambassador and Patrons and Mr. Saka Acquaye (Deputy Director, Technical, National Sports Authority).

The competition will be under the patronage of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, ASA, Professor Samuel Kwame Offei who is the Chairman of the University of Ghana Sports Advisory Board.

Mr Henry Nii Sackey (Head Coach, UG Sports Directorate) expressed the importance of using the stadium and the impetus it will give the athletes in their quest to perform better.

“The ground at the Athletic Oval has become very hard which is not conducive for the health of athletes hence the switch to use the Stadium. The effect of running on tartan track will give them an easy run which could improve their performance and their time. It will also afford them the platform to be acquainted with the terrain of competing on a tartan track ahead of the Ghana Universities Sports Association Games to be held in Tamale in January 2018.”

Mr. Clenard Adayina Bawa a Sports Organiser at the Sports Directorate averred that the necessary logistics are all in place to ensure the competition becomes better than previous years. He added that all stakeholders are prepared and ready for the event. Click here to see the programme

Prizes

There will be medals for the 1st to 3rd positions in each event as well as a trophy for the overall winning Hall, Best male and female athletes and the Most Promising athlete.